Ontology of Intentionality and Primacy of Existence

Abstract

Third chapter compares intentional objects and mental existents as two manifestations of the ontological investigation on intentionality. First sections present Russelian-Quinean and Meinongian approaches as modern alternatives and following chapters evaluate Mulla Sadra’s monist ontology around mental existents such as concept of existence, nonexistence, universals, quiddity in which these mental beings are regarded as parts of single reality, existence, yet at a lower level of intensity.